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I love Jess Faraday's work and am particularly fond on Ira Adler, the too damn attractive for his own good private secretary and orphan's home board director. In addition to an ever more complicated mystery about why certain people connected to the dirty business of sugar are dying mysteriously, we get all sorts of mentions of 19th century London characters from Oscar Wilde to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to Bram Stoker. Wonderful atmosphere, fascinating mystery, great book!
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What a great follow-up to The Affair of the Porcelain Dog this is! Ira Adler is one of those characters who subtly charms his way into the reader's affections without appearing to intend to do any such thing. (In this way, he's much more subtle than his own sometime inamorato, the Duke of Dorset Street.)
The author weaves luminous characters, sparkling dialogue, and historical fact into the warp and weft of Victorian London's gaslit, foggy, cobbled streets, and creates another winner where chara ...more
The author weaves luminous characters, sparkling dialogue, and historical fact into the warp and weft of Victorian London's gaslit, foggy, cobbled streets, and creates another winner where chara ...more
